Tutorial : Making Wordpress Theme by examples #1
First Step :
- You should to have Webmaster editing tool (I use Dreamweaver)
- You should to have Graphcis editing tool (I use Adobe Photoshop)
- Important here, you should to have local webserver for a testing mode. (I use Xampp) Download and install Xampp now.
Second Steps :
- Draw your Wordpress theme layout. (Single column or 2 column or 3 column or 4 column)
- Choose color (blue?, black?, white?, orange? etc)
- Ok? done? now we go to the next steps. (I picked 3 column theme) Here is my layout.
Open your Dreamweaver and create new HTML file and it should be like this.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Now create your layout.
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">My Header</div>
<div id="navigation">My Menu</div>
<div id="main">
<div id="content">
<div class="entry">My Entry</div>
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
<div id="leftsidebar">My Left Sidebar</div>
<div id="rightsidebar">My Right Sidebar</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">My Footer</div>
</div>
End of html file
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>My First Wordpress Theme</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- begin frame-->
<div id="wrapper">
<!-- begin header-->
<div id="header">
My Header
</div>
<!-- end header-->
<!-- begin navigation-->
<div id="navigation">
My Menu
</div>
<!-- end navigation-->
<!-- begin content frame-->
<div id="main">
<!-- begin entry frame -->
<div id="content">
<!-- begin entry box-->
<div class="entry">
My Entry
</div>
<!-- end entry box-->
</div>
<!-- end entry frame -->
<!-- begin sidebar frame -->
<div id="sidebar">
<!-- begin left sidebar box -->
<div id="leftsidebar">
My Left Sidebar
</div>
<!-- end left sidebar box -->
<!-- begin right sidebar box -->
<div id="rightsidebar">
My Right Sidebar
</div>
<!-- end right sidebar box -->
</div>
<!-- end sidebar frame -->
<!-- end content frame-->
</div>
<!-- begin footer-->
<div id="footer">
My Footer
</div>
<!-- end footer-->
</div>
<!-- end frame-->
</body>
</html>
Now your layout task is done! Tomorrow we learn how to add style to our layout. Subscribe our feed now 
I found you today. Great resource and great tutorial. Please come out with next one soon!
keep it up..jom meriahkan theme2 dari malaysian
great tutorial, wish to have your next style step…
I was able to change the “Blue Box” text by editing the logo.psd file that’s stored in the images folder.
wahhh…tutorial yang bagus sekali….bila nak post episd 2 pulak…cepat ler update cikit erkkkk
thanks waiting for the next entries
Dear Bob, I’m designing my site using your WordPress template, Blue Box. I was wondering how I can rename or remove the “Blue Box” text that appears on the blue banner located in the upper left corner of the page. Thanks for your help.
continue please…!